Comment by palata

My experience with C++ is that it fundamentally "looks worse" and has worse tooling than more modern languages. And it feels like they keep adding new features that make it all even worse every year.

Sure, you don't have to use them, but you have to understand them when used in libraries you depend on. And in my experience in an environment of C++ developers, many times you end up having some colleagues who are very vocal about how you should love the language and use all the new features. Not that this wouldn't happen in Java or Kotlin, but the fact is that new features in those languages actually improve the experience with the language.